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Lady Baltimore
Owen Wister
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Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research geneaologies and records to find proof that he is descended from royalty so that he can join her exclusive club, the Colonial Society. While there, he becomes involved in a love affair between John Mayrant and Eliza La Heu.
Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research geneaologies and records to find proof that he is descended from royalty so that he can join her exclusive club, the Colonial Society. While there, he becomes involved in a love affair between John Mayrant and Eliza La Heu.
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"Except moral elegance," I murmured.
"Ah, that was the point, sir! To see her you would never have guessed it! She kept her burdens from the sight of all. She wore tribulation as if it were a flower in her bosom. We children always looked forward to her coming, because she was so gay and delightful to us, telling us stories of the old times—old rides when the country was wild, old journeys with the family and servants to the Hot Springs before the steam cars were invented, old adventures, with the battle of New Orleans or a famous duel in them—the sort of stories that begin with (for you seem to know something of it yourself, sir) 'Your grandfather, my dear John, the year that he was twenty, got himself into serious embarrassments through paying his attentions to two reigning be. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I liked it!
But it is not a book for those who can not look at history dispassionately enough to learn its lessons. Naturally I don't agree with the protagonist's (and probably the author's) views on race. But by standing in their shoes I begin to understand some of the whys... why the wounds festere
This was recommended as a humorous look at old ladies who do genealogy. It is that, but...
When I worked at the bookstore, we occasionally got a parent in who was looking for an English translation of a Shakespeare play, for their kid who couldn't make sense of the original and didn't want to bother
Last year I read Owen Wister's The Virginian and just loved it. Surprisingly loved it since I am NOT by any stretch of the imagination a fan of westerns. I knew I wanted to read a second book by Owen Wister this year, and I chose Lady Baltimore. Trying to compare Lady Baltimore and The Virginian wou
Romance, post bellum, in the South.
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This book reads like its setting -- the warm, languid south: even-paced, a bit sleepy, but enchanting.
It was hard to get past the blatant racism in this novel. The constant deploring of how bad the new society is was a bit much after a while too. But the story itself, the love story (or rather the attempts to prevent a bad love story turning into a marriage) was very interesting.